A RARE BLUE AND WHITE WATER POT AND COVER

17TH CENTURY

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE WATER POT AND COVER
17TH CENTURY
The tapering body is divided into two registers of flower scroll bordered by bowstring bands dressed with a pale brown glaze, and has a square spout rising from the rounded shoulder. The very slightly domed top is divided by a handle formed by two dragons contesting a flaming pearl between curved flanges at either end, and is decorated on each side with diaper pattern surrounding a flower and insect-decorated quadrilobed panel, one of which has a circular opening fitted with a cover.
9 in. (23 cm.) high

Provenance

Imperial Oriental Art, New York, December 2002.

Literature

Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, no. 826.

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Lot Essay

A vessel of similar shape, decorated in polychrome enamels with lotus scrolls, dated to the mid-17th century, is in the Museé Guimet, Paris, and illustrated in Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, vol. 7, Tokyo 1981, no. 105. The handle on the Guimet example is cloud-form, instead of the opposing dragons on the current example, and there does not appear to be an opening with a cover. It is referred to as a "ewer," which would imply it has a spout on the opposite side.

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